Cardiff’s Gaiety cinema can be demolished, councillors say

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Plans to demolish a historic cinema in Cardiff have been approved.

The Gaiety Grand Cinema on City Road opened in 1912, later housing bingo halls, a bowling alley and even anarchist squatters.

Cardiff councillors have backed plans to replace the building with 114 student bedsits over five floors, above a ground-floor cafe or restaurant.

Planning officers said the site needed redeveloping, and rejected claims of an “oversupply” of student rooms locally.

 

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